Planting-board.



w. H. MAST. PLANTING BOARD. APPLICATION FILED JAN-20. I914.

1,161,714. Patented N0v..23, 1915.

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nNiTEn s ATEs PAT NT -oEEro WILLIAM H.1VLAS'D, 0E DAVENPORTQIOWA, DEDICATED, BY MEsNE ASSIGNMENTS, To

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEOPLE THnEEoE. I

LANTING-BOARD.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WiLLIAM MA'sT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Davenport, in the county of Scott, State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Planting-Board, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to improvements' in" planting boards, in which small plants are held in notches against a board operating in connection with a slat adapted to be fastened against the said board by means of buttons.

The objects of my improvement are, first, to provide a means for setting out a large number of plants at one operation; second, to provide a board which may be threaded with such plants at a table or other convenient place; and, third, to reduce the cost of the operation of planting.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1, is a perspective view of my im proved planting board, showing the detachable slat partially removed to permit the board to be threaded with plants. Fig. 2, is a sectional View through the line A B of Fig. 1, showing the detachable slat held in place between one of the blocks and one of the buttons. Fig. 3, is the same as Fig. 2

except that the button is shown held in place by a rivet and washer.

Similar figures refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In Fig. 1, 6 is a board of light wood having a handle 8 attached at the middle to the upper edge thereof. At the lower edge of the board 6 a strip 9 is attached with nails or screws, said strip having one edge projecting over the side of the said board 6. Notches 13 of convenient width are cut or sawed in said projecting edge to receive the plants which are to be set out. The parts of said strip between the said notches may be strengthened if necessary by driving small nails or brads 15 through such parts. A strip 7 consisting of tin is nailed over one end of the board 6 and the projecting edge of strip 9, making a slot or pocket 5 adapted to receive one end of the retaining slat 10. A block 12 is nailed to said board 6 and is adapted to hold the said slat 10 in position against the buttons 11. 'The said buttons 11 are shaped substantially as shown in the Application filed January 20, 19 14. SeriallNo. 813,200;

drawings and are p'ivotally fastened to" the board 6 by screws as shown in Fig; 2 or by rivets or bolts-extending through the board 6 "and fastened in place by means of a Washer as shown in Fig; 3. Said slat 10' is adapted to be detached from the said board, l

and when the desired number of plants are threaded in" said notches they may be held in place by inserting one end of the said slat 10 in the slot or pocket 5, and by fastening the said slat against the board 6, by turning the said buttons to the position at right angles with the said board 6. A handle 8 1s attached to the center of the board 6 for convenience in handling.

To operate the said board plants of proper size are threaded in the said notches, the roots extending below the said strip 9 and the tops lying against said board 6. When the desired number of plants are threaded in the said notches, one end of the slat 10 is inserted in the slot 5. Slat 10 is then pressed down upon the tops of the plants, between the blocks 12 and the buttons 11, being then fastened by turning the buttons until they viously prepared for the reception of the said plants, and when the roots have been set and the earth tamped about them the tops are released by turning the buttons 11, thus loosening the slat 10. When the said slat is removed the planting board may be readily disengaged from the row of plants and the operation is complete.

I claim:

1. The combination, in a planting board, of two boards of equal length attached at right angles to each other with notches cut in one edge of one of said boards, with a slat of equal length with said boards detachably fastened along the length of one of said boards, all substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a planting board, of a board with a narrower board of equal length attached to one edge and projecting at right angles over one side thereof with notches in that portion of said board projecting at right angle over the side of the other board, all substantially as described.

3. The combination, in a planting board, of a board with a narrower board of equal length attached to one edge and projecting at right angles over one side thereof with notches in that portion of said board pro,-

sp'ecificationof Letters'P-atent. l Patented Nov. 23,1915.

jecting at right angle over the side of the other board, with a slat of equal length with the other boards inserted at one end in a slot formed at one end of the two boards so attached at right angles with each other and detachably fastened to the side of the wider of said boards by a plurality of buttons and blocks for the purpose and in the manner substantially as described.

4. The combination, in a planting board, of a board with a plurality of buttons pivotally attached thereto and a plurality of blocks fixedly attached to the lower edge of said board and resting upon a narrow strip of board attached to the lower edge ofsaid board and extending at right angles over one side of said board with notches therein extending to the junction of the said boards with a slat one end of which is insert-ed in a pocket formed at one end of the two boards so joined together said slat arranged to be detachably fastened along the entire length of the wider of said boards by means of the said buttons and blocks for the purpose and in the manner substantially as described. i

In testimony whereof, I aifix my signature in the presence of subscribed witnesses.

WILLIAM H., MAST. Witnesses: I

WM. R. KREUTZER,

MAUDE G. BRAY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Gom missioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

